Scaling body size fluctuations

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 4646-4650

  Giometto, Andrea ^a,b   Altermatt, Florian ^b   Carrara, Francesco ^a   Maritan, Amos ^c   Rinaldo, Andrea ^a,c  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Allometry; Body mass; Cell counter; Finite size scaling; Protist microcosms

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; CELL COUNT; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; MICROCOSM; NONHUMAN; PHYLUM; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTIST; PROTISTAN COMMUNITY; PROTOZOON; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION;

BACTERIA; CHLAMYDOMONAS; ECOSYSTEM; EUGLENA GRACILIS; EUPLOTES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PARAMECIUM;

EID: 84875243234     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1301552110     Document Type: Article

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